Employment and Support Allowance

Paul Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in the employment and support allowance work-related activity group have a prognosis of unlikely to return to work in the longer term.

Mark Hoban: There is no such prognosis as being unable to return to work in the longer-term. However, the following table shows how many claimants have been allocated a prognosis of two years or more:
	
		
			 Employment and support allowance (ESA) new claims—Outcomes of initial functional assessments by prognosis and month of result date, for the work related activity group, Great Britain 
			  Claimants with prognosis of two years or more 
			 2008  
			 December — 
			   
			 2009  
			 January — 
			 February — 
			 March 200 
			 April 200 
			 May 200 
			 June 300 
			 July 400 
			 August 400 
			 September 300 
			 October 300 
			 November 300 
			 December 300 
			   
			 2010  
			 January 300 
			 February 300 
			 March 300 
			 April 200 
			 May 300 
			 June 300 
			 July 300 
			 August 200 
		
	
	
		
			 September 300 
			 October 300 
			 November 200 
			 December 200 
			   
			 2011  
			 January 200 
			 February 200 
			 March 200 
			 April 200 
			 May 200 
			 June 100 
			 July 100 
			 August 100 
			 September 100 
			 October 100 
			 November 100 
			 December 100 
			   
			 2012  
			 January 200 
			 February 200 
			 March 200 
			 April 200 
			 May 200 
			 June 200 
			 July 200 
			 August 200 
			 September 200 
			 October 300 
			 November 300 
			 December 200 
			   
			 2013  
			 January 200 
			 February 200 
			 Notes: 1. Figures are shown rounded to the nearest 100. 2. '—' denotes nil or negligible. Scope: Initial functional assessment—the first assessment of the employment and support allowance claim. The outcome recorded is the final DWP decision-maker's decision or the recommendation made by the Atos Healthcare professional where the decision-maker's decision is not yet available. Source: Data in the table is derived from administrative data held by the DWP and assessment data provided by Atos Healthcare.

Employment and Support Allowance

Paul Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people previously in receipt of incapacity benefit have been placed in the employment and support allowance work-related activity group without being seen by an assessor.

Mark Hoban: The information is as follows:
	
		
			 Incapacity benefits reassessments—outcomes for paper based assessments, Great Britain (IB claimants referred for reassessment between September 2011 and November 2012) 
			 Month of referral for reassessment WRAG outcomes 
			 September 2011 9,700 
			 October 2011 10,000 
			 November 2011 10,400 
			 December 2011 10,200 
			 January 2012 9,100 
		
	
	
		
			 February 2012 8,400 
			 March 2012 8,800 
			 April 2012 9,100 
			 May 2012 9,900 
			 June 2012 9,100 
			 July 2012 10,600 
			 August 2012 10,100 
			 September 2012 9,200 
			 October 2012 10,500 
			 November 2012 10,300 
			 Total 145,300 
			 Notes: 1. All figures are rounded to the nearest 100. Hence totals may not sum exactly. 2. A small number of cases where the data is inconsistent with the policy have been excluded from this table. 3. When someone claiming incapacity benefits is reassessed for ESA, they will only have to undergo a face-to-face work capability assessment (WCA) if there is insufficient evidence for a paper-based WCA to be carried out. Source: The figures are derived from administrative data held by the Department for Work and Pensions and assessment data provided by Atos Healthcare.

Housing Benefit: Greater London

Jeremy Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what level of transitional funding for housing allowance has been allocated to each London borough for the financial year (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12 and (c) 2012-13 to date; and what the intended level is in 2013-14.

Steve Webb: The following table provides details of the housing benefit transitional funding allocated to local authorities in London.
	
		
			 £ 
			 Local authority 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 
			 Barking and Dagenham 294,875 68,143 41,448 
			 Barnet — 241,642 43,712 
			 Bexley — 38,447 23,841 
			 Brent 216,526 522,149 86,081 
			 Bromley — 58,830 40,707 
			 Camden — 192,363 70;637 
			 City of London — 3,955 2,334 
			 Croydon — 192,448 56,397 
			 Ealing — 275,656 58,775 
			 Enfield — 215,103 46,898 
			 Greenwich — 60,022 59,401 
			 Hackney — 254,015 98,972 
			 Hammersmith and Fulham — 133,623 57,931 
			 Haringey 525,000 208,524 71,994 
			 Harrow — 82,093 23,481 
			 Havering — 43,903 20,758 
			 Hillingdon — 84,335 35,840 
			 Hounslow — 93,456 40,162 
			 Islington — 154,251 88,546 
			 Kensington and Chelsea — 460,766 45,666 
			 Kingston upon Thames — 46,965 16,005 
			 Lambeth 266,000 125,739 102,129 
			 Lewisham — 177,545 69,082 
			 Merton — 62,890 23,722 
			 Newham — 116,368 66,449 
		
	
	
		
			 Redbridge — 114,632 23,253 
			 Richmond upon Thames — 37,760 18,187 
			 Southwark — 76,542 99,068 
			 Sutton — 46,359 20,950 
			 Tower Hamlets — 128,333 104,668 
			 Waltham Forest — 120,219 50,421 
			 Wandsworth — 195,959 60,939 
			 Westminster — 1,311,681 66,930